girls:
3.7k births since 1951
#2836 (50th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1976
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1951
#4496 (42nd percentile)
The name Kellee is the #4,496 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,730 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 41.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,836 (50.4% percentile) for all time with 3,714 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1976.
Kellee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Kellee is available in 66 out of the 71 years between 1951 and 2021 (66 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kellee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kellee reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 25.7% percentile (ranked #562) with 122 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 122 births per million (ranked 25.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Kellee reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #775) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kellee".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kellee is pronounced as KEH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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